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"Yah pretty much. Why?" Maikeru hurdled over the bolt and felt the passing lighting scorch the air within inches of his legs, the electricity made his hair stand on end. When his foot touched down again he began throwing knives randomly about, scattering the majority of his veritible arsenal over the area. "You see, on a good day I can manage stealth attacks quite well, attacking when I can't be seen, but if I can be seen, I prefer an out-and-out fight hands down, even if I can't win that way. So here goes!" With that he took off at a run towards Zaine once more, mid-stride he would attempt a slash at Zaine's right shoulder, but this was just a feint. Instead he would drop the smoke bomb he had secreted in his hand, plunging the area into obscurity.

"..." thats all i'm gonna say! HA see if he can hear THAT!
Maikeru had heard and caught a glimpse of Zaine leaping back before the smoke completely wiped out the benefit of sight. He knew the direction he had jumped in, his ears were good enough to hear and take note of any other movement. Maikeru used all of his skills at silent movement he had gained from years of burgling to change his position, and consequently the direction Zaine would expect the attack from. With that he lobbed a weighted dart, much like a birdie in badminton only sharp into the air, aimed to come down on zaine's approximate position. With the distraction in motion Maikeru swung, down low aiming to disfigure and maim. The combination of the smoke, silence, and distractions should at least surprise Zaine.

Maikeru brought his sword up as quickly as he could running it parallell to his own body to spread the force out along his torso and leg. This spread out the force enough so as to not break his entire body. The breath was driven from his body and he barely managed to keep hold of his Zanapkutou as he collided with a young tree, went through it, and stopped as his collision shook leaves from a giant forest oak.

"Ow. By the way, Kasen only won cause he blew our skinny little noob a**es up." Maikeru paused as he was caught by a wracking cough during which he slumped to the ground. "All you managed to do was bruise me, Oh here ya go, managed to snag it during the short melee." He tossed a small package of bandages to the ground in front of Zaine and grinned. The exertion of that speech and tossing that small package was slightly too much at the moment. Maikeru's vision began to darken at the edges.




((I hope you forgive that, I thought it'd be funny considering Maikeru's past as a thief and prediliction towards pranks. If not I'll remove it just RP as if it hadn't happened and I'll fix it, if its alrite cool. And is this where I do the whole "get tested my by Zanpakutou spirit and learn its name" thing?))

((sweet, thanks. And u were just fine.))

Maikeru's vision slowly narrowed to a point as he began passing out. He expected the point to dissapear into black as well, when it didn't well, it got slightly annoying. After a few moments of exasperating not-dissapearing the point of light slowly began expanding as if he were in a tunnel and it were a train. When his vision returned so did his other senses, which only then did he realize had been absent, the return of them smacked him upside the forehead like a train.

Maikeru looked around, he could barely see a foot in front of his face, from horizon to horizon, or at least he thinks, the land is cloaked in a formless unshakable mist. Snow fell from the sky...or wait...ash? Ash fell from the sky in a constant shower cloaking everything it touched in a soft grey blanket.

"Ok I knew I had issues and I was messed up but this is something!" Just then by a combination of catching a glimpse of a high stone merlon and intuition about his own mind he realized, "Holy crap! There are freaking CASTLES here!"

With that the previously silent scene lit up with what sounded like a cacophony of sound, when in reality, or well mental-ity, it was just the scuff of a bare foot through the ash. There she was a small girl, pale and smudged with ash, wearing no shoes and a simple shirt and trousers. A strange cloak that looked to be made of ribbons flapped behind her.

She stared at him intently through the mist, as if she could see through it like it was simply a pane of glass. "It sure took you long enough."



((Do I need a certain number of posts? or just whenever as long as it is detailed?))

Vin held up her hand in it was a simple coin, a blue line pointed to it. "Those lines you see? They all point to a source of metal, any and all metals within a certain range that will change depending on your own power level. If you push on one, the object at the end is pushed, if you pull, it is pulled." To demonstrate she alternately Pushed and Pulled on the coining causing to zip away into the mist and return a moment later snapping into her palm.

Maikeru looked at the coin contemplating all the various uses this new power could be applied to. Something rapped against his chest...hard.

"Pay attention, if you learn to jump adequately here and now the rest will come to you with use, I will also help you occasionally." With that she dropped the coin and Pushed against it, snapping it against the stone of the roof they stood on, the moment it touched she shot off into the sky.

She pushed it against the building adding its weight to the coin's, shooting her, instead of the coin....interesting it's about weight.

Maikeru positioned himself directly above the coin and Pushed as hard as he could against it, his stomach lurched as he shot into the sky, as he slowed to a halt he was lurched to the side, Pulled by the numerous knives on his person he thought. Vin was perched on top of a stone tower. As he stepped from the air back onto something solid she spoke, "Good, you have an innate feel for the force, balance, and intricacy required. Now get back down, without breaking your legs, and it will be sufficient. I will have another lesson for you." She Pushed off of a metal window frame in the tower and flew into the mist.

Maikeru smiled, shrugged, and searched for an appropriate...allomantic line. Allomantic? Why did that word pop into his head? He shrugged again and stepped off the roof, Pushing occasionally on the coin below him to slow his assent, and Pulling on things to the sides and front to correct his course. Maikeru landed with a slight ruffle right back where he had started, above the coin, now slightly flattened from all the force exerted on it.

Maikeru breathed deep of the mist waiting for Vin to show up again.

"I told you not to touch the ground." Maikeru's mind flashed and he came back to himself. He located several lines beneath him and pushed against them all, slowing his descent and bringing his body to a quivering halt, all except for his stomach...that shot right on by, metaphorically of course.

Maikeru grunted and Pushed even harder shooting right back up. He saw her once again sitting on the tower roof. "I didn't touch the ground." He smiled. black]"I know. Now last lesson."

Vin Pulled all of his knives and other projectiles from their sheathes and holding pouches, there were many. Maikeru shouted in wordless surprise expecting it to kill her. Instead she took a small step to the left, then right, then left, then right. The whole time alternately Pushing and Pulling the items flying through the air. "I call this juggling, it is useful, although it takes intense focus and natural skill, both you seem to have in abundance surprisingly." Maikeru looked on in awe at the deadly maelstrom hurling around her, barely registering her voice. "If you can pull this, any other application will come easily to you, you will have learned all I can teach you for now, now focus."

Vin Pushed the maelstrom at Maikeru, it appeared as if she was peeling a silver apple. A thin strip just stopped spinning and shot at Maikeru instead. This continued until nothing more was orbiting Vin.

He blinked in surprise, "O". He focused and tried to locate all of Lines, Pulling on them and stepping to the side in exactly the same way Vin had. A few items dropped but once he had the maelstrom spinning around himself he located them and pulled them back up, along with all the coins they had used in the training session. He added them to the twister circling around his body.

"Amazing, you have more talent than I did when I first began my training under my mentor." She said in surprise. "Drop them, I will clean up, you are ready. Now think of the trees where you came from and you will return."

Maikeru halted each items movement in the air, Pushing and Pulling to stop it, each quivering in the air, before dropping them to the earth far below. He smirked knowing it was a very arrogant thing to do.

Maikeru closed his eyes and breathed in the mists, replacing the stone towers with trees in his mind.

His eyes flickered open, somehow the majority of his wounds had healed during the training. Your welcome. Maikeru smiled in thanks, she smiled in your welcome. He wondered how she did that.

Maikeru picked himself off of the ground, dusted off his shoulders, and drew his Zanpakutou. "I realize you won't take my word for it, but I assure you, without your Shikai you're gonna get your a** whooped on." Having given his warning Maikeru swung Vin to settle the grip. "Kiri Ni gōben kaisha, Vin." He whispered.

Mist exploded outward engulfing Zaine and Maikeru both, Allomantic lines sprung into Maikeru's vision. The blade shortened and took on a more angular tip, knives materialized from the mist and slowly circled around Maikeru's hand. Before the last of the mist was sucked back into Vin's blade Maikeru Pushed on Zaine's sword, using it as an anchor to throw himself back and up into the trees.

Maikeru stopped pushing on Zaine's blade and used some knives from the fight before as anchors to hold himself in place. He smiled as he pulled a hand out of his pocket literally dripping with coins. He Pushed them all at Zaine, dozens of tiny bits of metal shot towards Zaine like dogs from hell.